Back then (10 years ago?) standby consumed energy, if you left your laptop on standby mode for far too long you'd come back to see the battery dead and you lose all your work.
So hibernation was by far the best option to maintain a long-running desktop session. But these days standby mode consumes so little energy that hibernation is no longer needed in my honest opinion. Still the mindset remains.
So hibernation was by far the best option to maintain a long-running desktop session. But these days standby mode consumes so little energy that hibernation is no longer needed in my honest opinion. Still the mindset remains.